The Most Memorable Hacks of All Time

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Hackers and computer technology have been a source of cultural obsession since the late 1980s (from the 1995 film Hackers to the most recent incarnation of the Disney Tron films). Still, sometimes not even the most illustrative fiction can compare to what real hackers have pulled off in their time. For your reading pleasure, we’ve compiled a list of the most memorable hacks in history: Operation: Payback Source Operation Payback — the most recent of memorable hacks — was part of a group called Anonymous’ plan to avenge Julian Assange, Editor-in-Chief of controversial Whistleblower site WikiLeaks. A number of sites — including Amazon, Visa and Mastercard — had either stopped hosting the WikiLeaks documents or prohibited donations to the organization in the last half of 2010